Numbers 13:31

In the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people that rose against Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we shall be able to conquer it.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

In Context

30Amalec dwelleth in the south, the Hethite and the Jebusite and the Amorrhite in the mountains: but the Chanaanite abideth by the sea and near the streams of the Jordan.

32But the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not able to go up to this people, because they are stronger than we.

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Cross References

Numbers 32:7Why do ye overturn the minds of the children of Israel, that they may not dare to pass into the place which the Lord hath given them?

Deuteronomy 1:28Whither shall we go up? the messengers have terrified our hearts, saying: The multitude is very great, and taller than we: the cities are great, and walled up to the sky, we have seen the sons of the Enacims there. Walled up to the sky... A figurative expression, signifying the walls to be very high.

Joshua 14:8But my brethren, that had gone up with me, discouraged the heart of the people: and I nevertheless followed the Lord my God.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 13:27-33

26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. 28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we… Read the whole commentary →

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